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Quote by George Eliot
Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. -

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymens miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. – George Eliot

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Vacations
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There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds — not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but — a hatred of all injury. – George Eliot

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Hurt, Injury
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George Eliot
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There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness. – George Eliot

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Slavery
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Other Quotes from
Beauty
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Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. – Helen Rowland

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Beauty

People say Im extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage? – Imelda Marcos

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Beauty

If beauty isnt genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning. – Peter York

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Beauty

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time. – Frank Norris

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Beauty

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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. – Virginia Woolf

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Men often act knowingly against their interest. – David Hume

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Men

Its the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say youre mad, then dangerous, then theres a pause and then you cant find anyone who disagrees with you. – Tony Benn

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Time

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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